Why is the city wasting money on weekly street sweeping? In my new neighborhood on the east side, with all the cars parked on the street, all that gets swept is the bike lane. Why not use the money to repair some pot holes or replace burnt out street lights?

In my neighborhood (also on the east side of town), nobody parks on the street. I really appreciate the weekly clean-up that the street sweepers do, especially when the garbage trucks have dropped clippings or other items in the gutters the day before.

Well then how do we get overnight parkers off the street the night after garbage pick up? Some of these cars haven't moved since I moved in 2mos ago. Most have expired tags!!! I thought there was a 72hr limit?

i too am glad our garbage company is cleaning the streets once a week. vlc, have you ever thought about calling the police and reporting the cars that haven't moved in over two months as well as having expired tags? i would have done that after one week of a car not moving, especially since they are not registered. common sense tells me those cars are never moving.

The city where I used to live had posted "no parking" from 7am to 4pm for street sweeping day. The parking police used to literally follow the street sweeper down the street and put tickets on cars that were in violation. Knowing that the parking police would be right there behind the truck kept people pretty honest about moving their cars. The streets get cleaned, and the city gets revenue for people who don't move their cars for that one day. That could work really well here. My particular street has big sycamore trees that shed like crazy, so it's rather nice that the sweepers help keep debris out of the street and rain gutters, but they would certainly do a better job if cars were out of their way. One day inconvenience isn't a big deal once you get used to it.

me & my arrow wrote:The city where I used to live had posted "no parking" from 7am to 4pm for street sweeping day. The parking police used to literally follow the street sweeper down the street and put tickets on cars that were in violation.

Great just what we need is the parking police nazis in Petaluma. This ain't Frisco! If you want to live in a place like that move! Sweep your own curb area. I say get rid of the sweeper. That should fill in a pot hole or two. By that way that is not called revenue. That is called extortion .

I believe the city gets the street sweeping for free, sort of. As part of the city garbage contract they also have to to provide sweeping for the city. The city gave up its own sweeper service years ago. And as a side note, our city council is about to approve another rate increase for garbage.

"Great just what we need is the parking police nazis in Petaluma. This ain't Frisco! If you want to live in a place like that move! Sweep your own curb area. I say get rid of the sweeper. That should fill in a pot hole or two. By that way that is not called revenue. That is called extortion ."

Good lord! Way to have a polite discussion. Why don't we get rid of all public services. Would that make you happy? What a child.

me & my arrow wrote:"Great just what we need is the parking police nazis in Petaluma. This ain't Frisco! If you want to live in a place like that move! Sweep your own curb area. I say get rid of the sweeper. That should fill in a pot hole or two. By that way that is not called revenue. That is called extortion ."

Good lord! Way to have a polite discussion. Why don't we get rid of all public services. Would that make you happy? What a child.

what was un-polite about asking if you want Petaluma to become Frisco? And no one was talking about public services. Though it would be nice to have a few less services. Maybe they can balance the budget then. Like someone mention earlier it was a bone the garbage company threw in to get a contract. The city should have just said not needed, we want a lower rate. I can sweep my own yard. Now that was polite calling people (me) names. Ouch! that hurts.